The power struggle behind Kerr\u2019s blockbuster decision<\/a><\/p>\nNestory Irankunda of Australia celebrates scoring a goal during the FIFA Series match between Australia Socceroos and Curacao at AAMI Park.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Irankunda has scored four goals and provided five assists in his first season in the English second tier.<\/p>\n
But it is the manner in which he has scored his goals that have been most impressive.<\/p>\n
Irankunda made himself an instant fan favourite at Vicarage Road with two stunning long-range free kick goals early in the season.<\/p>\n
While he also won the club\u2019s goal of the month award for April with a blistering run and excellent finish against Charlton Athletic.<\/p>\n
Nestory Irankunda of Australia poses with fans following the FIFA Series match between Australia Socceroos and Curacao at AAMI Park.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Irankunda has also been shining in national colours.<\/p>\n
He scored a brace against Curacao in the Socceroos\u2019 World Cup farewell game in Melbourne and proved himself to be a showman with a Michael Jackson dance celebration that he has taken with him to England.<\/p>\n
Irankunda has scored five goals in 13 international appearances and can further his status as a star on the rise at the World Cup where he and fellow Championship sensation Mohamed Toure are set to form an exciting attacking partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Nestory Irankunda may be off to the English Premier League next season after catching the eye of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[11470,2095,64,311674,63,689,223611,34674,22706,2065,311673,311675,1208,2057,311670,277115,596,6246,311678,5717,2105,311677,311672,124616,311671,253473,122481,647,19928,131292,85329,938,77669,2041,2067,3583,289095,677,1614,2111,28362,311676,6263,85,131298,81483,660,205458,2062],"class_list":["post-644086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-adelaide-united","tag-america","tag-au","tag-aussie-excitement-machine","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-footballer","tag-bayer-04-leverkusen","tag-bayern-munich","tag-canada","tag-dance-celebration","tag-ekrem-konur","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fee-record","tag-fifa-series","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-football-transfer-specialist","tag-germany","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-impressive-form","tag-instant-fan","tag-international-friendly","tag-italian-club","tag-kick-goals","tag-lega-calcio-serie-a","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-jackson","tag-minas-panagiotakis","tag-mohamed-toure","tag-montreal","tag-multiple-clubs","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-northern-europe","tag-notches-assistsfootball","tag-oceania","tag-premier-league","tag-quebec","tag-rising-star","tag-scouting-process","tag-sheffield-united-football-club","tag-sports","tag-stade-saputo","tag-swiss-side","tag-victoria","tag-watford-football-club","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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